Craft's published critique of civil libertarian ideology, the ACLU, and Alan Dershowitz, reprinted from Clothed with the Sun, the Naturist Society's quarterly — its special anti-pornography issue, ©1987. Documents Craft's account of Dershowitz agreeing by phone in 1984 to handle the Cape Cod appeal after her first Seashore arrest, then later denying to a Boston Herald reporter that he had ever agreed, saying he could "never defend Craft on any charge because of her position against pornography"; his question to her — "How can any person working for the right of people to be seen nude on the beaches reasonably decide that people who want to be seen in pornography cannot be seen?" — and her answer distinguishing the right of women to be on beaches from the right to be seen: "personal activity and expression... has no inherent need of a viewer." Includes her analysis of the ACLU's corporate speech priorities ("Who Pleads for Porn?"), the sidebar photo of Craft in jeans before Playboy logos, her staged photograph captioned "CIVIL LIBERTARIANISM that, ACLU-style, touts free expression for the sex capitalists, and silence for women who are its victims," and the N.O.P.E. (Naturists Opposing Pornographic Exploitation) announcement with the biographical note naming her organizations: Cross Your Heart Support Network, Kitty Genovese Women's Project, Preying Mantis Women's Brigade, Myth California Organizing Committee, Citizens for Media Responsibility Without Law, Outlaws for Social Responsibility. Part of the Nikki Craft Archival Project.

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